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Hitchcock Suspense Stories · Faces of Death

阿尔弗莱德·希区柯克

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Chapter 1 accident widow

Millie pulled the trigger, and with a bang, Simon fell to the ground without a word, dying. "Damn it!" Millie grunted.God was so unfair to Millie, she lost her husband again. In fact, from the beginning, Millie didn't want the gun that caused trouble, but her husband insisted on giving her the gun, which was good, and the husband himself was killed by the gun. Simon is Millie's current husband, and also the most stubborn and bossy of Millie's husbands.He likes being called "Xi". Due to work reasons, Simon often travels out of town for several months, so he does not think it is safe for his wife to stay at home alone.Simon insists that Millie must learn to use a gun so she can protect herself in the future.

But Millie doesn't like guns at all, she even has a fear of guns.Millie would rather travel with her husband than stay at home with a gun, so she begged him to take her with him so that he could be by his side at all times.But Simon was unwilling to do this. He didn't want his wife to travel around with him, so despite Millie's strong opposition, he bought a gun and began to teach her how to use this deadly gadget . "Honey, look," Simon said, "you pull the bolt first, like me." With that, Simon made a graceful demonstration.Then he handed Millie the gun to try it out.But as soon as Millie took the gun, it somehow went off, and so the scene at the beginning of this article happened.

Also unlucky with Simon is Archibald, who likes to be called Ake.Ake's death was also very strange.According to his uncle, Ake liked to play with water since he was a child, he was born to swim, and thought that he was a fish in his previous life.In short, Ake has become crazy about water since he was a child.Millie, on the other hand, is very afraid of water. In fact, Millie is not a timid woman. She is not afraid of many scary things in nature—she is not afraid of lightning, mice, or even snakes, but when she sees a large body of water, she will be very scared. dizzy.Millie would be fine swimming in the small pool, but sailing in the middle of the water in a small boat would scare her out of her wits.So, if Millie lived in a time when there were no airplanes, she would never want to go outside the United States.

Ake likes water, and Millie loves his husband very much, so she often accompanies Ake to play by the water.However, Millie never went to the boat, she just stood on the shore, smiling and watching Ake row.But Ake insisted that: Husband and wife must have the same hobbies, so as to have a common language.So, he insisted on asking Mi Li to board the boat: "Dear Mi Li, come on, I will take good care of you, please trust me!" "Ake, I believe it, but I really can't..." Ake said to Millie: "If you don't get on the boat, it means you don't love me enough!"

Ake has already said such a thing, what else can Mili do?So, with Ake's help, she boarded the boat tremblingly.The boat gradually left the pier, and Millie sat in the boat in fear, and she kept begging Ake to row the boat back.But Ake ignored this. He felt that to cure Millie's hydrophobia, she had to completely overcome her fear of water.When the boat reached the center of the lake, the great fear caused Mili to stand up abruptly. Ake was afraid that she might make a mistake, so he hurriedly stood up and wanted to help her, but Mili subconsciously pushed her hands outward, Suddenly, Ake lost his balance and fell into the water.Millie screamed in shock and fear.People on other cruise ships heard the cry for help and rushed to rescue them, but it was not until four hours later that Ake was found. The poor man had turned into a cold corpse.

After Ake died, Millie married Jonathan, who liked being called Joe.Jonathan was a little upset with Millie's mother, who kept calling him "John" by mistake.He complained to Millie more than once: "Your mother is a good mother-in-law, but she calls me by the wrong name over and over again!" Poor Jo didn't know, and before long, Millie His mother will never call him by the wrong name again. Joe is a nature lover and likes picnics very much. He often takes Millie out into the wild.There, two people set up a folding table, plug in a parasol, and then taste delicious chicken breast, ham and drink iced champagne under the umbrella, what a wonderful enjoyment it is!However, Joe’s picnic is not just that, he advocates nature so much that he insists on obtaining food sources from nature. He often says: "The so-called picnic must obtain food from the wild!"

The day of their last picnic was sunny and cloudless.Joe went fishing by the river, and he arranged for Millie to go pick mushrooms and wild strawberries in the woods.Millie knew nothing about mushrooms, so Joe taught him how to identify mushrooms—which ones were edible and which ones were not, which ones were delicious and which ones were bad... Millie tried her best to do what Joe told her to do.Unfortunately, Millie wasn't wearing glasses that day - because Jo always said she looked ugly in them.So Millie picked a large basket of mushrooms and wild strawberries while seeing things vaguely.

Two hours later, they rendezvoused at the campsite.Joe showed off to Milly with a bunch of fish he had caught, and Milly happily showed off the basket full of mushrooms and wild strawberries.They sat under umbrellas and drank bourbon.After a while, they felt very hungry, so they gathered sticks to make a fire, buried the fish in the ashes and roasted them, and skewered a bunch of mushrooms with the sticks and roasted them on the fire.When it was done, Joe devoured the mushrooms.Millie doesn't like mushrooms very much, so she eats some wild strawberries.Finally, they ate up the grilled fish together.

After a while, Joe suddenly complained of a stomachache, and finally rolled on the ground in pain. Millie hurried to help him, and saw big beads of sweat rolling down Joe's pale face.It turned out that Millie hadn't mastered the skill of distinguishing mushrooms. Among the mushrooms Joe ate just now, there were some poisonous mushrooms mixed in. In this way, Joe died in the painful struggle. Millie's next husband was Pan, whose full name was Panleton.To this day Milly can't bear to think about what happened to him, and if Pam had moved a little to the side, either to the left or to the right, the bust wouldn't have killed him.

Pan's youthful dream was to be an interior designer, but was thwarted by his father. In the end, Pan had to join a bank and become a bank clerk.After marrying Mi Li, Pan's talent in interior design was brought into full play, and he turned his newly married house into a testing ground for art design.Pan first renovated the house in a Regency style, then found it unsatisfactory and wanted to change it to a Victorian or Modern style.In the end, he decided to decorate according to the classical style, placing six busts of ancient Roman generals downstairs, and in order to echo each other, he also placed six busts upstairs.In Milly's opinion, this is too solemn and cold, not like a living room at all, but more like a museum.But Pan insisted on his own opinion, and Millie did not object.Pan stayed up all night for several consecutive days, and finally completed the design sketch.Afterwards, he directed the porters to carry the twelve heavy stone statues to the house.

Not long after the decoration of the new house was completed, one night, Mili was going upstairs to change, and Pan stopped her downstairs and said, "I hope you can change into that blue nightgown, it will make you look more sexy. Full of joy, Millie leaned over and blew a kiss to Pan, and it was this action that accidentally knocked over the bust of Julius Caesar beside her, and the stone statue that fell from the sky took Pan's life at that time. When Millie told her parents about this tragedy, while comforting their daughter, the parents also gently suggested: "Honey, you know, there is no place for Pan in our family's cemetery. Look, your uncle Adam And Aunt Bess, your grandpa, your father, and I—and you, of course—are going to be buried there, so . In the end Millie had to choose a cemetery for Pan far across the river, and buried him there.After the funeral, Milly felt very sad for Pan and regretted that she had to leave him so far away alone.It didn't take long, though, for Al to spend time with Pen. Al, his full name is Elosis.He loves sports, almost as obsessed with sports as Ake is obsessed with water, but at the same time he is also a stubborn man, just like Joe insists on gathering food from the wild during picnics. Al insists on teaching Milly how to play softball. Millie is worried that her delicate skin will be worn out, and she is also afraid that exercise will cause calf cramps, so she never participates in sports.But Al didn't care about this, he signed up for Millie in the softball club without asking Millie's consent, and Al hoped to stand on the sports field with his wife and participate in the husband and wife softball game. When Milly stood on the sports field with her bat in hand, she felt uncomfortable. How much she wished Al could understand her and say, "Honey, if you can't do it, just go down. I won't force you." Instead Al said, "Hit the ball, honey, I know you can! Hit it hard, hit it!" So Milly swung the bat hard and hard, and the bat hit Al right in the temple, and he fell dead on the spot.Afterwards, although Millie was in great pain, she also felt a little fortunate—after all, it was Al she killed, not Moore.Because, before the game started, it was Moore who was standing next to Millie, but when Millie was about to hit the ball, Al insisted on switching positions with Moore in order to personally guide Millie, but he was beaten to death instead.If Millie killed Moore, then his wife, Mary Moore, would never let her go. After Al's death, Millie heard her grandfather say more than once: "Millie is a charming girl, and men hang around Millie because of her beauty and money." But Millie felt that Grandpa was only half right.It's true that men are attracted to their own beauty, but they don't marry themselves for money.My previous husbands all had decent jobs, and each husband bought a life insurance before marriage, the beneficiary of which was me, and, according to the insurance regulations, any accidental death would receive double compensation , without paying inheritance tax.It can be seen that it is not that the husbands are greedy for their own money, on the contrary, their death left a lot of money for themselves. Soon, Milly married Bo Ruijia again.Jia was the gentlest of Millie's many husbands. Jia's eyes are always full of spirit, especially when he stares at Mili, it is full of affection.But their marriage was doomed to be short-lived and lasted less than a year. Chia was a drinker who could keep his head clear when he drank Scotch, bourbon, or vodka, but the strange thing was that he was very sensitive to gin. Get emotionally out of control.Millie knew he had it and never dared to store gin in the house.In the end, however, it was the gin that caused the tragedy. When Uncle Adam came to visit them one day, he brought gin.As soon as Jia saw the gin, regardless of Milly's dissuasion, she opened it impatiently and drank a small glass.After Uncle Adam had lunch at Millie's house, he took his leave and prepared to go back. Millie hurriedly got up and sent Uncle out to the bus stop by the road, which took about ten minutes.When Milly came home, she was surprised to find Jia drinking gin after glass. Knowing that she could not stop her husband now, she ran to the kitchen and cut a plate of beef, hoping that the food might divert Jia's attention. force.But she was wrong, Jia happened to be eating beef as a drink, and soon, a bottle of gin was going to run out. At this time, Jia could no longer control herself.He was very emotional, chatting to Millie, and then ran upstairs to the balcony with the bottle, shouting that he was going to watch the moon.Millie was worried that he might make a mistake, so she followed him to the balcony uneasy.Jia stood on the balcony, and excitedly drew pictures against the bright moon in the sky. When the pictures were enough, he raised his neck and drank up the wine in the bottle. With an excited cry, he lifted the empty bottle from the balcony. Throw it down.Millie thought, if the bottle fell on the stone pavement, it would be smashed!But there was only a "bang", and it turned out that the bushes and verbena downstairs caught the bottle. After Jia finished drinking and watching the moon, he suddenly thought of Mi Li. He turned around and called, "Where is my girl? Where is my dear girl?" Millie giggled and said, "I'm here, are you here to catch me?" Jia staggered over, trying to grab Mili, but Mili flashed nimbly and slipped under Jia's armpit.The two played a game of "Eagle and Chicken" on the balcony.Jia turned around, spotted Mi Li's position, and rushed over. Unexpectedly, he broke the iron railing on the balcony with too much force, and fell headfirst to the ground. The grass didn't catch him like a wine bottle, and his neck broke on the spot, and he died. A few months after Jia's death, Adbot entered Millie's life.Adbot liked being called Bot, and his marriage to Millie lasted longer—two full years.Their marriage might have lasted much longer if Bott hadn't also died unexpectedly. Milly loved Bert very much, and like all wives who please their husbands, tried to please him, although she couldn't understand why Bert wouldn't let her wear glasses.She knew that the newspapers had said that half the population in the United States wore glasses.But Bot also had his own reasons. He said Millie was perfect, and she was not allowed to use glasses to uglify his lovely face, so according to this, Bot's death was also his own fault. It turned out that two years after Bot married Milly, he suffered from a serious heart attack. As for how he got the heart attack, no one knows, maybe even Bot's mother can't tell. Sent to the hospital. During Bot's hospitalization, Millie took good care of him. After he was discharged from the hospital, Millie took care of Bot's diet and daily life in every possible way.Bot, on the other hand, acted like a spoiled child who wanted Millie to be by his side twenty-four hours a day and never leave. That night, Millie, who had been busy all day, lay on the bedside exhaustedly, and fell asleep in a daze.Just as she was sleeping soundly, Bot shook her awake, it turned out that it was time for Bot to take his medicine.She didn't wear glasses, so she fumbled for it in the drawer. She thought that the outermost medicine box should be, so she took out the medicine from it, and poured a glass of water for Bot to swallow.Unexpectedly, Millie took the wrong medicine, and the medicine induced Bot's heart attack again, and he never woke up again. After Bert's death, Millie didn't fall in love for a long time. She just wanted to calm down, look back and think about why these things happened to her and her husbands one after another. Millie had to admit that with so many husbands, she got them all mixed up.She remembered that she had donated a large sum of money to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Jia's name, but it took her a long time to recall that Bott was an MIT graduate; she donated to the Humane Society A sum of money to commemorate Joe's birthday, but later she remembered that Joe didn't really like animals, and it was Ake who liked animals. Besides, it wasn't Joe's birthday that day, but Ake's; She will silently miss the wonderful taste of having sex with Simon, but when she thinks about it later, she is actually not with Simon, but with Pan; She had been to Paris with Ake; sometimes, she would think of the leisurely vacation she and Jo had spent in Venice, but in fact it was Ake, not Jo, who was feeding the pigeons with her in Piazza San Marco. Although Millie always confused the husbands, that was okay, the point was that Millie respected and missed each of them.When Millie was a little girl, when she first started to have a longing for love, she dreamed of being able to grow old with her true soulmate, but it was a pity that luck made others. Millie will be thirty in a few years, and she already has...well, come to think of it, how many husbands she has. Millie counted her husbands on her fingers—Bote, Joe, Ake, Ka, Simon, and Pan, six husbands in total.Hey, strange, why is one missing?Oh, yes, and Al, why did you forget Al?He was one of Milly's favorite husbands.Counting Al, there are seven husbands in total.Millie was once the happiest woman in the world, she had obtained seven perfect loves successively; but at the same time she was also the unluckiest woman, she was still alone in the end. Now, Millie has no hope for love. She feels that no man will dare to approach her with romantic thoughts, because her marriage history itself is a history full of tragedies. Anyone who wants to pursue her After knowing this period of history, men will shy away. Millie was in a particularly depressed mood, and she very much hoped to tell others about her doubts and troubles. She often thought: "It would be great if someone would listen!" But the more times she married, the more her husband died. Her family and friends increasingly avoided the subject, seeming to think it would be rude to discuss the subject with Millie, fearing it would hurt Millie's heart.But what they missed was that Millie's most urgent and serious problem was her urgent need to talk to someone about the tragedy that had happened to her. One day, when Milly felt sorry for herself again, there was a knock on the door suddenly. She opened the door, only to see a tall, handsome man standing at the door, who seemed to be in his early forties. Millie thought to herself: "Every husband in the past was mostly the same age as me, but this man in front of me is at least ten years older than me. It seems that he definitely doesn't want to marry me." "Mrs. Raymond!" "Sorry, you're in the wrong place," Millie said. "Aren't you Mrs. Raymond?" the man asked again, thinking Millie didn't understand him. Seeing that Millie didn't respond, the man said a third time: "Mrs. Raymond!" It wasn't until this moment that Millie came to her senses: "God, I almost forgot that I have a husband—Bert, his full name is 'Raymond Adbot'!" There is a husband whose surname is Raymond, so it is not wrong to call herself "Mrs. Raymond". Thinking of this, Millie nodded to the man. "My name is Williams, may I come in?" the man introduced himself. Millie nodded again and invited him in. In fact, Williams is a police officer of the Major Crime Squad of the Queens District Police Department in New York. He concealed his identity and the purpose of his trip from Millie.It was a secret operation that he came to look for Mi Li this time, and even his boss and colleagues in the police station didn't know about it. It turned out that due to the successive deaths of Millie's husband, Williams had long been suspicious of Millie.That was after the accidental death of Millie's third husband, Williams went to the police chief, hoping to summon Millie for investigation, but the chief rejected Williams' request, because the chief and Millie's grandfather He has a deep friendship with his father, and he firmly believes that Millie is absolutely impossible to be the murderer of her husband. Later, Millie's fifth husband also died unexpectedly. Williams couldn't sit still anymore. He went to see the director again and asked to investigate Millie.This time, the director was furious and reprimanded him severely: "Williams, are you obsessed with ghosts? Your suspicions are groundless and stupid. You should punish the real criminals. Go to Queensboro Street! A large number of criminals are waiting for you to attack, how do you still have time to suspect an innocent woman?" The director's reprimand made Williams very sad, but he didn't give up, because he believed that Millie was a cunning female killer who was constantly killing young men in the Queen's District, and his mission was to make this terrible killer confess his guilt Volunteer. Until later, Millie's seventh husband also died in an accident. Williams finally decided to hide his identity, find Millie, and terminate her criminal plan. So, as mentioned above, Williams came to the door of Millie's house. Before that, he didn't know what kind of woman Mi Li was, but he thought: "Since seven consecutive husbands have died at her hands, maybe she is a woman with a fierce face." But when Mi Li appeared in front of him , he was secretly taken aback, looking at Millie's big watery eyes, those slender and petite hands, and her baby-like tender skin, he almost wanted to deny his previous opinion, but he still Admonish yourself: "Don't be fooled by a woman's beautiful appearance, the more beautiful the more dangerous! Aren't those seven good men sent to Huangquan Road by her?" Williams had to admit that Millie was indeed a beautiful woman, no wonder so many men fell in love with her one after another regardless of her marriage history. "But no matter how cunning a fox is, it will show its tail." Williams always believed in this.So he chatted with Millie about her marriage, her seven unhappy husbands, and her longing for love... Williams firmly believes: "Millie has been suppressed for too long by those terrible crimes. As long as she keeps talking, it won't be long before she will slowly show her feet." And Millie?She was completely mesmerized by this unexpected visitor.She had been expecting someone to listen to her distress, and Mr. Williams showed great patience and interest in what she had to say.What surprised Millie even more was that Williams knew everything about her husbands, and even corrected her sometimes erroneous facts.Moreover, he seemed to be very interested in every word she said, and took out his notebook to record it from time to time. Williams also seems interested in Millie's house.Millie thought to herself: "It's not surprising, after all, this is an old house with a history of 300 years. Whenever it is opened to the public in spring or during Christmas, people from all over the world will flock to visit it. .” In addition, Williams is also very curious about the place and process of Millie's husbands' deaths, but he is very cautious. For example, when he stands under the stairs in the hall, his eyes will always look at the top of his head nervously, It seemed that he was afraid that another stone statue would fall from the top and smash himself to death, just like Pan.Millie thought: "Williams' worries are completely unnecessary, because after Pan's funeral, the statues were donated to the museum." When Milly showed Williams a tour of the balcony where Jia had fallen, Williams was also cautious, apparently worried that he might fall too. In the end, Millie left Williams at home for lunch, and the two chatted as they ate. Not long after lunch, the sky gradually changed, and the room became darker and darker, and Millie had to turn on the light.It looked like a storm was coming.After a while, a strong wind blew outside the house, and the windows "squeaked" loudly. Millie hurried upstairs to close the window, and Williams also followed in a very gentlemanly manner to help, but he always deliberately talked to Millie. Keeping a certain distance, because he was afraid that Millie would push him out of the window when he turned around. Suddenly, a flash of lightning flashed across the sky, and the room was plunged into darkness.Millie thought: "It must be the lightning that burned the wires, but it's okay, two people are more romantic by candlelight." So she handed Williams a candlestick, and then lit another candle, and the two of them Continue to close the doors and windows in the corridor on the second floor.When they came to the back stairs, they suddenly smelled a pungent gas smell. "Oops, the wind must have blown out the fire on the water heater!" Millie said anxiously, "The gas valve is in the basement." "I'm going to turn off the gas valve." Williams blew out his own candle. "Blow out your candle! Stand aside and watch the door to the basement. Don't let it close!" Dark, narrow stairs, groping to the basement. "Blow out your candles! Stand aside! Watch the door leading to the basement, don't let it close!" Millie recalled these words left by Williams, what a domineering and arrogant man!For a split second Millie imagined the flames engulfing him, and she rescued him, bending over to give him mouth-to-mouth respiration.What a romantic scene!It's like a gothic novel - a stormy night, an old mansion in the wilderness, a mysterious strange man and a beautiful and charming woman.And she is that woman.God, what a thrill! "Bang", a loud noise awakened Millie from her fantasy, "God, the gas must have exploded, Williams...he also encountered misfortune..." When Milly regained her senses, she realized that there was no gas explosion, but a gust of wind, and the door to the basement was slammed shut.Millie remembered what Williams had said before leaving to keep the door open, and she rushed to the door and pushed it open like hell. Just as Millie slammed the door open, Williams rushed up to do the same, and the door slammed into Williams' face so hard that he fell on his back and rolled down the steps, Finally, he hit his head hard on the brick floor and died. Millie was devastated. What a good man, so unlucky!But in a way, she's used to this kind of thing, so she knows what to do: In the event of an accidental death, she must call the police as soon as possible, and she must not move anything. When she ran to the phone, she couldn't help but wonder: Mr. Williams had never met her before, but how did he know all the surnames she had ever had, and the order was not bad?
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